The Sounding keeps time with the sampling point. No record says what sets the time. It sounds on a beat, swelling a second before. A wave goes out from it along the floor, and for a while every light in the ring except its Node's goes out, the suit's and the Carrier Lamp's with them.
In the dark it rushes the operative. Lit, between pulses, it drifts.
The Node's signal
An operative standing in the ring's Node as it sounds carries the Node's signal into it, and the signal wounds it. The directive filed for that record reads: ANOM-13 kept time. The Node kept it better.
See also
Records cited
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES
- Critical Response directives